Hi, listeners. Just wanted to give you a heads up before you start listening today, that we dive into some really mature content in this episode, and we wanted you to know before you start.

Welcome to the Librarian's Inn, the New York Public Libraries podcast about books culture.

Who do I sound like?

Vincent Price.

Thank you.

Well, not really.

Welcome to the Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books culture and what to read next.

I'm Gwen Frank, etc.

Guest, Anne Ruea. Young Adult Librarian at Mulberry Street.

Young Adult Librarian Anne Royet may be, but her interests range far and wide if you read

some of her blog posts, which we should link to this blog post about this episode of The Librarian

is in. Welcome, Anne. Hi. Thank you for coming in. My pleasure. I kind of can't believe...

My pleasure. I can't believe that we're at episode 102 and we have not had you on this podcast yet.

I sort of can't believe it either. It is. Yeah. You clearly weren't paying attention. Clearly not. Because you have, I mean, as far as I know, you're, I don't know how far range, you're, you're, you seem to have a lot of different interests in a lot of different fields and a lot of different genres. My fingers are in a lot of pies, yes. Okay. I know romance. I know... Boy bands. Boy bands. I know you're obsessed with the royals. Yes. All right. Can I tell a story of this story? Oh, sure. And this is just a good at Anne, a background about Anne. Anne and I were at a meeting together once and we were sitting next to each other and

she was doodling on her, you know, notebook that we all do, just listening to the meeting, but paying

attention. And I looked over and she had written, I heart wentworth Miller. I did at the time.

And I was like looking at a K-I-Con and I felt intimidated. It's true. And I was like looking at a gay icon and I felt

It's true and I looked over and I thought she was writing like you know serious notes about the meeting you were in and I was just like

Oh my god we're like in high school and I love it. I love it. And she just looked at me like even face. She was like yeah and I love what with Millerettmuth Miller. And you also, and then she also asked me to read, she wrote something on her notebook, because then we were like passing notes. We were like giggly kids in school. She wrote something in her notebook and asked me to say it out loud. Of course, I had to whisper because we had a meeting, and it was Bob Loblaw. Wait, what? She wrote the name, Bob.

Yeah? Is that a joke from something? I don't know. I don't know what that. She wrote B-O-B-S-O-B-L-A-Y. And she just said, Frank, read this out loud. And I looked over and I went, Bob La-Blaw. And then she went, she just did what you did. So we were like eighth graders and loving every minute of it.

So love... law. And then she went, she just did what you did. So we were like eighth graders and loving every minute of it.

So let's get into an eighth grade mentality, which won't be hard for me.

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